Telephone: 020 7911 5000 ext 2354
Email: A.Caink@wmin.ac.uk
Post: University of Westminster, Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies,
32-38 Wells Street,
London, W1T 3UW
Section: English Language 

Andrew Caink is a Principal Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. He is Course Leader for the BA English & Linguistics Combinations, on which students combine English Literature, English Language, Linguistics and Creative Writing in Joint or Major/Minor combinations. He lectures on the English language, theoretical syntax and Literary Linguistics.

He was educated at local comprehensive schools in Hertford and Erith, and the universities of Oxford (Hertford College, BA Hons English Language and Literature, 1987), Bristol (PGCE English, 1988) and Durham (MA Applied Linguistics, 1993; PhD Theoretical Linguistics, 1998) and has lectured at the Universities of Durham, Lapland, and Wolverhampton. He has also taught English Language in Finland, Poland and Bulgaria. His research to date has been in theoretical syntax, focusing on English and South Slavic languages, stylistics, and syntactic issues in Bilingual First Language Acquisition (English-Bulgarian); his short fiction has appeared in Stand, Succour, Riptide, and other anthologies. He has supervised PhD students working on theoretical syntax and stylistics and would be interested in hearing from prospective students wishing to pursue postgraduate study in generative syntax, stylistics and related areas.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Publications

2006. 'Clitics' in Brown (editor-in-chief), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, volume 2, pp. 491-495. Oxford: Elsevier.

2004. 'Semi-lexical heads and clitic climbing', Journal of Slavic Linguistics 12/1 & 2. Slavica Publishers: Bloomington, Indiana.

2002a. 'The Inflection/clitic distinction in the Bulgarian nominal 'Clitic Cluster'', in G. Zybatow, U. Junghanns, G. Mehlhorn & L. Szucsich (eds.) Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang: 169-178.

2002b. 'In Favor of a "clitic cluster" in the Bulgarian and Macedonian DP', in M. Dimitrova-Vulchanova, D.Dyer, I. Krapova & C.Rudin (eds.) Balkanistica volume 15. University of Mississippi: The South East European Studies Association. 75-102.

2001. 'The Lexical Interface: closed class items in South Slavic and English', summary article of my Ph.D. thesis, alongside a review of the thesis by Zeljko Boakovic, Glot International volume 5, number 5. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics.

2000a. 'Full form auxiliaries in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian', in Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics volume VIII, edited by I. Sekerina & T.H. King. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications: 61-77.

2000b. 'In favour of a 'clitic cluster' in the Bulgarian and Macedonian DP', Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics. University of Trondheim, Norway: 170-182.

1999a. 'Against Long Head Movement', in Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics, edited by M.Dimitrova-Vulchanova & L.Hellan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 91-124.

1999b. 'Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian clitics at the lexical interface', in Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistic volume VII, edited by H.Coates, K. Dziwirek & C. Vakareliyska. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications: 81-100.

1996. 'Lexical insertion and the Bulgarian auxiliary 'be'', Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics volume 28. University of Trondheim, Norway: 29-54.

BOOK REVIEWS

(2003) Review of Boskovic (2001) On the Nature of the Syntax-Phonology Interface: Cliticization and Related Phenomena, Elsevier, in Journal of Linguistics 39: 661 665. Cambridge University Press.

(2001) Review of Franks, S. & T. H. King (2000) A Handbook of Slavic Clitics, OUP, in Journal of Linguistics 37: 429-433. Cambridge University Press.

(2001) Review of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics volumes 3 5, Michigan Slavic Materials, in Language 77:592-594. Linguistics Society of America.

PAPERS

July 2010 ‘In the novel appeared an unspeakable construction: the locative inversion as a purely literary construction’, Poetics and Linguistics Association 30th Annual conference, Genoa, Italy.

July 2010 ‘Percy and Horace go head to head: a falsifiable approach to relative value in ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘On a stupendous leg…’, Poetics and Linguistics Association 30th Annual conference, Genoa, Italy.

June 2006. 'Upstart crows and Iambic Pentameter', Interfaces with Linguistics, University of Westminster, U.K.

May 2003. 'Generative Grammar: Its uses and abuses', Kiril i Metodii University, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.

May 2001. 'Semi-lexical heads', UCL Linguistics seminar series.

March 2001. 'Variable Interface Projections', International Emonds Fest Conference to mark the retirement of Joseph Emonds, University of Durham, U.K.

February 2001. 'Semi-lexical heads and the distribution of pronominal clitics', guest speaker at the Workshop on Slavic Pronominal Clitics, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.

May 2000. 'The English 'Locative Inversion Construction' and the limits of metaphor', Third International Conference for Research in European Studies, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.

December 1999. 'The DP clitic cluster in Bulgarian and Macedonian', Formal Description of Slavic Languages III, Leipzig, Germany.

September 1999. 'In favour of a nominal clitic cluster in Bulgarian', The Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

July 1999. 'Late lexical insertion', lecture at the The International GLOW Summer Institute, Greece.

May 1999. 'Full form auxiliaries in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian', Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics VIII, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

May 1999. 'Negative auxiliaries in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian', Poznan Linguistics Meeting, Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

May 1998. 'The South Slavic clitic cluster at the lexical interface', Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics VII, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.

November 1997. 'Extending extended projections', Linguistics seminar series, University of Durham.

September 1997. 'Clitic clusters in South Slavic', The Second Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic Languages, Sofia, Bulgaria.

September 1997. 'Clitic clusters at the PF and Lexical interfaces', Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

April 1997. 'Lexicalization in South Slavic', Linguistics seminar series, Catholic University of Brabant, The Netherlands.

October 1995. 'One instance of late lexical insertion in Bulgarian', First Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic Languages, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

April 1995. 'Functional auxiliaries in 'Long Head Movement' languages', Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom.